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Termyn8or -> RE: giving your cat medicine- HOW? (2/14/2010 9:48:32 AM)
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FR
I don't mean to hijack, but since we meandered to this, so be it.
I haven't taken a pill in about twenty years. Mom used to take aspirin all the time, was always getting headaches. This was puzzling as us kids had grown up. I remembered what I knew for years about aspirin and told her to get off them. She did and the frequency of her headaches dropped to near nil.
I used to pop more pills and drink more elixirs and shit than anyone due to severe allergies. None of it did any good, even from the doc. One day I threw it all out and started my own sort of desensitization program. I had read about it and figured out my little plan. It worked better than anything. I was 13. Details on request.
Twenty years ago I took antibiotics, this was for an ear infection. I did not want to be deaf. This year I might take a few pills related to my impending eye surgery, but only what is absolutely necessary. I don't want to be blind.
When I got shot in the face, before crossing the threshold from the ambulance to the door I jumped up and walked in and I said "I am walking into this MF and I am walking out". I also told them that I do not consent to any painkillers or sedatives. Those were my words. You talk about pain ? Think of a hole in your head extending from your left cheek all the way to the back of your neck. It was not fun and millions of you would have been so doped up on morphine that you wouldn't be able to think. I don't want that.
I am a firm believer that the human body is capable of repairing itself almost always, and that pain is actually a signal to the system to direct it's resources to that healing. Once or twice a year my head hurts, I guess that's a headache. They go away within a minute. When you take drugs all the time your system expects drugs. My system knows it is getting no such thing, and I believe, therefore acts accordingly. I believe the same is true of animals.
If I am the responsible party, my judgement prevails. If the animal dies, that's not good but that's the way it is. If I die it's not good, but that's the way it is. My pet would not have three neurosurgeons around the clock. My Aunt put about $50,000 into a dog that died anyway. I don't talk to her much.
When I get my eye surgery it is because I have to. Cats don't drive, read schematics or repair PC boards to component level. I make that exception and it is my right. After the surgery if they tell me I need medication for the rest of my life bet you believe the first thing I will do is figure out a way to break that dependence as soon as possible. To me, being dependent on legal drugs is as bad as being an addict. The only difference is the source of the drug.
My family does not necessarily share my views, and my sinister sister is the cat expert. She has this way of hypnotising them which entails getting them situated between your legs just right, two fingers can immobilize them and they can't go anywhere. After a bit of constant eye contact the cat will eat anything you shove down it's throat as it becomes totally submissive. She could cut it's paws off and it'll lay there as if given a huge dose of PCP (horse tranquilizer). Her cats can hear her car coming down the street and the will go to the door and wait for her. She can call them by snapping her fingers, and we know that alot of cats won't come, you might have to go to them because they have an attitude. But not no mo !
But then I am not totally sure that we are not from a different planet or something, so in the hope of being helpful, I will say this. Get a mortar and pistle. They are available in ceramic from ASS. No joke, it stands for American Surplus & Scientific or something like that. They are about four bucks. You can grind the pills up and put it in the food. If you take this route, it's better to have NOT tried to administer a pill so they will not recognize the smell. It is not yet associated with a less than pleasurable experience at that point.
I believe that my policy on animals is quite sound. I will come over and pet your pets. I will play with them and smack them around, which they will love. But I will not feed it, other than give water. All else is your responsibility. For example at my house, the Kid brings over his redbone husky and he has a blast. One day another guest gave the dog a cheeto. I said "What the fuck are you doing, you don't feed other people's animals". Likewise with whitekitty, who stops by from time to time. I told my roomies do not feed him. He lives two houses down and is their responsibility. It's not the cost of the food, it's the fact that they are in control of the animal's diet.
I don't want that. Eat anything you want out there, if it's bad, throw up.
We should be allowed to be human, and they should be allowed to be animals.
T
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